We hate each other thanks to social media.
While we hate each other more than ever before, we are more lonely than we have ever been before.
We are lonely, Â more depressed and sicker.
Our loneliness, our depression, our sickness are all fomenting the spin of social media hate algorithms which only further polarise our debate into All Tribe and No Village politics.
I think we are a clever ape who has evolved over 300 000 years. Because we have to compete against other sentient and self conscious clever apes and work with them as groups so our intelligence and ability to use tools could change our environment, we have had to bond and understand each other over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.
When we meet in person, our bodies and brains and taking in millions of different details subconsciously and we are working each other out through facial cues, pheromones, gait, stance, smiles, eye contact, etc etc etc: we have taken those 300 000  years of evolution and replaced that  with flat screen interaction where we lose all that unseen evolutionary advantage and instead become brainwashed and trapped in rabbit holes of demented reality.
Flat screen interaction is warping our human capacity to tell what is true and what isn’t because we don’t have that sense of the person in front of us and all the million ways we asses each other in our evolved brain.
We have become an ocean of spite and resentment in an All Tribe No Village politics distorted by social media hate algorithms because 300 000 years of evolution can’t work in a flat screen interaction loneliness.
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Hey! Hating communists is entirely proper.
Do you know what a communist is?
Of course – for Xenophon, a communist is anyone he disagrees with!
Communists to Xeno are a meme that he is prodding our minds with. Over evolution we have learned about analogies and how to stir others. We are so sharp we cut ourselves, but unfortunately more often, like to cut others either physically or with a pointe juste?
People who want the state to be as large as possible and control as much as possible. You think a state that didn’t own or control corner dairies but every other business still wouldn’t be communist.
The state? The whole damn world. That’s what the Cold War was about, and now it’s the WEF… WHO…UNO.. Own nothing, and be happy…
That is a nonsense definition. The first communists on the historical record were Christians “Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need”. Nothing to do with the state. This person vainly calls himself Xenophon yet is too much of a coward to use his true name and identity. Why? Because he wants to be able to talk nonsense without consequence.
Given the nastiness of commentators at this site a pseudonym is necessary.
And now I’ve had three responses vanished. Go to The Standard for debate.
@ Xenophon .
An understandable opinion coming from someone who will, without lifting a finger, likely and readily exploit others for their money.
In reality xenophon has no idea what it’s talking about. It doesn’t understand that communism is also fascism which is another co-joined label for capitalism. There’s no difference between the three fanaticism’s in that they’re all exploitative of each other and themselves but worse, then of us.
Socialist capitalism is what built Post @ Maori AO/NZ then fascist neoliberalism brought it to its knees. Mainly because people were too busy being happily comfortable to have to give a fuck, now look where that’s got us. Look what that’s dragged us down to. A greedy-loony mmp fiasco populated by right wing Sideshow Bob clones on Meth rolling about in money they never earned.
fuck wit, and Im not a commy
What goes around comes around. Human learning and doing is never finished, and we here in Kiwiland forgot that, or were not enabled with the right sort of information enabling, even encouraging discussion. We have virtually brainwashed ourselves.
(Example, I helped in a class having library introduction experience. They were to find something that interested them. One boy had found a motor vehicle magazine and was flipping the pages making vroom, vroom noises. This was a class of ordinary kids as far as I know.
But people say that sometimes they aren’t interested in learning until something excites their minds and then it’s all on. So we need to excite our minds even now we are older I am sure, and do something useful with that response now.)
I produced the term pointe juste out of the recesses of my memory and looked it up on google. Then looked up one of the entries; there was such a good message to me:
Je pointe juste le fait que nous sommes au milieu de la journée et que tu n’as toujours pas fait la moindre petite chose.
I’m pointing out that it’s the middle of the day and you still haven’t done a single thing yet. https://context.reverso.net/translation/french-english/Je+pointe+juste
Right, fate has sent me a message for the day: Received.
One positive about a fragmented society is that it is very difficult for the deep state to herd everyone into a virtual pen and shape them in their image. Isolation means independence, yes there might be a vast sea of cultural refugees but at least they are insulated against becoming a brainwashed automaton accomplice.
that was clearly not evident at the last election as if you were right we would not have the current rabble of a government .Voters were clearly rounded up by the constant barrage of lies and race based hate and voted for the hate brigade .
Ethan Bouquet The Wellington City Council advocates of demolishing heritage buildings and historical neighbourhoods and seemingly replacing them with dense apartment complexes not necessarily conducive to healthy and happy family or personal lifestyles, has a certain potential for shaping, IMO
Ethan Bouquet The Wellington City Council advocates of demolishing heritage buildings and historical neighbourhoods and seemingly replacing them with dense apartment complexes not necessarily conducive to healthy and happy family or personal lifestyles, has a certain potential for shaping, IMO
Communism only works by force,no need to say any more.
Good and that’s final?
Then don’t Bob 1 !!!
I swear if you had to speak your OWN mind , (not regurgitated shite ), you’d be forever speechless.
You can’t blame Bob, he’s just a badly programmed bot, no different to the brainwashed flesh bots that made him.
The number of wars throughout human history, both then and now, would suggest a rewrite of your reality.
Ninety percent of us pretty much want the same stuff. Then we have David Seymour only yesturday getting all over the media attempting to divide us telling us there are two kinds of people.
Social media ruins those who haven’t read books or weren’t really interested in ideas prior. They are carried away by the tidal wave of information. I’m sure it’s very similar for the socially isolated. Books, in the day, were good but not a replacement for people, soc med is a bit more relentless.
I’m still a loner in my late 50s — we’re not meant for it. We 2-legged faulty stools have to keep twirling to keep upright. But that’s why we are called human. Savage cut off a limb of his self to deliver for the people.
Modern isolation by soc med? We’re talking about youngsters and otherwise not educated enough or solitary souls. They can’t ‘connect’ but want to however. More difficult for the introverts or uninformed of this time.
Keep calm, carry on. Just another day in the multi-verse.